Disabling USB automount (KDE)
 

When I plug in a removable device, KDE automounts it, but I prefer to do this manually (also perhaps not liking the idea that any user could plug a device in and have it mounted). I've searched around and looked at KDE -> System Settings -> Removable Devices, and "Enable automatic mounting of removable devices" is already unchecked.

Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks

Look through the udev rules in /etc/udev. Find the rule that automounts usb devices and comment out the rule. I recommend comment out rather that edit out, just in case something comes up later and you want to use that rule again.

I had the reverse problem and the solution was to *include* the 'plugdev' group in my user profile.

Maybe *excluding* the 'plugdev' from your user profile will do it.

That did it. I didn't realize at the time that only users in the "plugdev" group were allowed to use removable devices. As far as the notifications, it was just a matter of tweaking KDE's widgets.

Thanks!